From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times

Federica Francesconi, Ph.D. (2007) is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her forthcoming monograph is titled Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from Renaissance to Emancipation. Stanley Mirvis, Ph.D. (2013) is Post-Doctoral researcher at the Hebrew University. His forthcoming monograph is titled The Jews of Colonial Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press). Brian M. Smollett, Ph.D. (2014) is Associate Dean of List College and the Gershon Kekst Graduate School and Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought at Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

• Notes on ContributorsJane S. Gerber: An AppreciationBrian M. Smollett>Introduction: From Catalonia to the CaribbeanFederica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis>Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus Maud Kozodoy>2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain Norman Roth>3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs Vivian B. Mann>4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society Jonathan Ray>Part 2: Women of the Genizah5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity Judith R. Baskin>6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents Renée Levine Melammed>Part 3: Italy and Western Europe7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity Benjamin Ravid>8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno Francesca Bregoli>9 LaJébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle Gérard Nahon ל״ז>Part 4: Jews under Islam10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century D.G. Tor>11 Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt Yaron Harel>12 How Jews Became “Moroccan” Daniel J. Schroeter>Part 5: The Modern Experience13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion Stanley Mirvis>14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community Aviva Ben-Ur>15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964 Jessica Hammerman>16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938) Thomas F. Glick>Part 6: Documents: Unknown Sephardic Voices17 “And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More”: Women’s Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century Federica Francesconi>18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi Matt Goldish>19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers Norman (Noam) A. Stillman>The Writings of Jane S. Gerber Index